Bluefish: what's your consensus

[wahoojack]

I, like Bird Dog, use the smaller fresh bluefish to make "crab cakes". Here's my recipe:

Boil, skin, debone, and flake the fillets.
Add chopped bell pepper, (use yellow and red) and jalapeno
Old Bay seasoning to taste
Just enough mayo to hold together into cakes

Dip in egg wash, and then fine cracker crumbs
Fry in a little oil until brown

A lady visiting Hatteras one summer gave me this recipe for some fresh bluefish.

[puttputt]

blue cakes, this sounds mighty tastey, have to give this one a try. i like the blues blackened, fried, and just about any other cooked way. about 20 yrs. back we first caught em in the surf and was told to just throw them back, until we gave it a grill test right on the beach. cleaned in the surf and on the grill skinside down, butter and seasoned. forked off the skin, wow it doesnt get much better than that.

[LeeG]

One of my favorite eating fish. The keys to eating this fish, imho, are simple. To start with, fresh caught and bled & iced. When you cook the fish skin it and remove the dark meat on the back side of the fillet. You will be surprised how nice the fillet will taste with that meat removed.

[Jack Hexter]

I grew up with my dad bringing home a burlap bag full of bluefish from the headboat trips he took off the Jersey coast, and mom would bake them in foil with lemons. Hated them then and hate them now.

My favorite recipe for bluefish is to cut them in three pieces, soak each piece in a crab trap for three days, pull the traps and eat the crabs

[fletcher carson]

While they are fun to catch and a good fighting fish i'll recite you a old maine recipe my grandfather used to tell me in regards to bluefish.

cut up potato's carrots and onions and stuff them in the fish
salt an pepper them and add a stick of butter then wrap in tinfoil and throw it on the grill and cook till done then remove the potatos onions and carrots put them on your plate throw the damn fish away and enjoy your meal.

i grew up on the maine coast and from what i know as long as you bleed em there not too bad if you like a strong fishy flavor........ i dont so i use my grandfathers recipe lol


disclamer - im just kidding about throwing it away im a conservationist and an angler so keep your tempers down..... i have a feeling that last comment might make people hate me

[algdog]

normally release them all, if I get stuck with one that comes in gill or gut hooked, I bleed it right away and off to the smoker with it
It comes out real good smoked

have had it a few times cut into strips, place in tin foil with old bay, a little butter and some sliced onions put them on the grill for 15 min. comes out all right.

[RHoos22]

My father taught me this. Bluefish filets, brush mayonaise on them, put sliced onions and tomatoes on top. Wrap in foil and put on grill. Mayo takes out the oil in the fish, tastes great